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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Specific provisions applicable to clinical investigations of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1125-17

No clinical investigation may be carried out on a person without his free and informed consent, obtained in writing under the conditions laid down in paragraph 1 of Article 63 of Regulation (EU) 2017/…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Special provisions applicable to studies of the performance of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1126-17

The investigator may ask the person taking part in a performance study, at the time he or she gives informed consent, to agree to his or her data being used in subsequent research exclusively for scie…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Administrative schemes

Article L1333-17

The person responsible for a nuclear activity shall implement the measures for informing persons likely to be exposed to ionising radiation that are made necessary by the nature and extent of the risk…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Obligations of the insurer and the insured.

Article L113-17

The insurer who takes over the management of a lawsuit brought against the insured is also deemed to waive all defences of which it was aware when it took over the management of the lawsuit.The insure…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Insurance on goods transported by all modes of transport

Article L173-17

Goods are insured either by a policy valid for one journey only, or by a policy operating on the basis of a declaration of supply.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Obligations of the insured

Article L175-17

The insured must take reasonable care of all matters relating to the aircraft. The insured must contribute to the salvage of the insured objects and take all measures to preserve his rights against th…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Obligations of the insurer and the insured.

Article L172-17

Where it is not possible to establish whether the loss or damage originates from a war risk or a marine risk, it is deemed to result from a marine event.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Additional provisions relating to preventive measures

Article L311-17

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall specify the conditions of application of this section.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article L356-17

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall supervise risk concentration and intra-group transactions at group level in accordance with the provisions of Sections II, IV, V and VI of th…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 3: Ski lifts and ski runs.

Article L342-17

I. - The design, construction and modification of ski lifts, the way in which they are operated and the checks carried out to ensure that they are in good working order are subject to administrative a…

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